Thunderbrook Healthy Herbal Minty Horse Treats
100% Natural treat with added mint for you to reward your equine friend
Highly palatable and tasty
100% Natural, No preservatives, binders, additives, straw or waste by product fibre.
Composition
Dried Alpine Grasses, Dried Alpine Herbs, Mint
Analysis
Oil (2%), Protein (8.4%), Starch (2%), Sugar (7%), Fibre (21%), Ash (8%) DE 11MJ/kg
Thunderbrook Equestrian is an equine feed and herbal supplement company whose feeds are formulated using the latest scientific research to nutritionally support your horse.
Good results speak for themselves and positive feedback & referrals from customers, barefoot trimmers, farriers, therapists and vets has been the driving force behind our growth since our formation in 2009.🐎
HOW THUNDERBROOK STARTED…
1985 – 1992:
Dr Deborah Carley BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, PhD Biological & Nutritional Sciences gained a first degree in Biochemistry from Sheffield University. She then went on to study for a PhD and post-doctoral research at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on ‘Molecular Analysis of Plant Cell Wall Hydrolases of Bacterial Origin’. This work involved the detailed genetics, molecular and cell biology of enzymes which break down cellulose and xylan – components of the grasses and grains that horses eat
Dr Deborah Carley BSc (Hons) Biochemistry, PhD Biological & Nutritional Sciences, is the founder and Managing Director of Thunderbrook Equestrian Limited
2001 – 2009:
Haven taken up new position in Cambridge, working for The Welcome Trust, Dr. Carley moved her small family run stud from a Wiltshire farm surrounded by cattle and sheep farming, to Norfolk, on the edge of Thetford Forest, surrounded by arable farming.
Over the next few years, other problems started to occur with the herd of horses including persistent mane and tail rubbing, ventral midline dermatitis (itching under the belly), summer COPD, allergies, runny eyes and noses, infertility and then bang! We had major problems.
In 2007, two mares developed acute laminitis requiring remedial farrier work. A couple of other horses developed foot soreness, despite already being on poor grazing. Feed and exercise regimes hadn’t changed over the years, the horses carried ‘summer condition’ as usual but were not obese, so the sudden onslaught of lamintis was most peculiar.
Why had we gone from a position of never having had laminitis in over 70 years, to suddenly having 4 mares afflicted with it?
Then Harlequin, our 16.2hh ex-eventer Welsh Cob gelding who had never been overweight, began to drastically lose condition and developed laminitis in all four feet, with pedal bone rotation. This proved to be the beginning of a number of findings and life changing events that came our way over the following two years…..and led to the formation, in 2009, of a family run business – Thunderbrook Equestrian.